Propaganda Contest Runners-Up!

As the Administrator mentioned last week, we've sorted through the 11,000 submissions to the Propaganda contest and picked some of our favorites from the frankly jaw-dropping number of first-rate entries. Scroll and enjoy! (Oh, and to the runner-up winners below: Keep an eye peeled for an email from us so you can claim a little something for all your hard work.)

Most Unique Likenesses of Soldier and/or Demo

- Draw
- Brown

Best Use of a Term We Don't Know the Meaning of,
But That is Probably Filthy

- Matthias Rigling

Best Incorporation of Another Class

- Reese

Most Likely to Get Us a Cease and Desist Order From Bethesda

- LARATRON

Best Use of the Time-worn Maxim "Sex Sells"

- Agent Melon

Best Attempts to Make Soldier Look Adorable

- Delicious Spyger
- Anneka

Best Attempt to Make Soldier Look Heroic

- metalpiss

Best Attempt to Make Soldier Look Jet-Propelled

- B0nd07's Bison Stacker

Best Attempt to Make Soldier Look Manly

- Commissar K

Best Attempt to Make Soldier Look Normal

- Brooke

Best Attempt to Make Soldier Look Melting

- Nick Pearce

Best Attempt to Make Demoman Look Cowardly

- huzzah!

Best Attempt to Make Demoman Look Like a Drunk

- The Fox Fanfare

Best Attempts to Make Demoman Look Evil

- Chanicle Bullie
- Daimao

Best Attempt to Make Demoman Look Like a Kamikaze Pilot

- ?Faction

Best Attempt to Make Demoman Look Like Billy Dee Williams

- The Wenny C's Pride

Best Alternate Entry by a Contest Winner

- J.Axer

Best Ironic Resuscitation of a Long-dead Genre

- Prototype

Best Use of Euclidean Space

- Hollohill

Best Attempt at Iconography

- Viva La Demo!

Best Poster to Take Into a Tattoo Parlor While Pointing at Your Chest

- BAO

Most Convincing Argument for Evolution

- Astoundingly Alluring and Astonishingly Awesome

Most Convincing Argument for Education

- Plank

Most Convincing Argument for Learning How to Contract by One Pixel in Photoshop

- Cliff Hanger

Best Poster Evidently Scanned From a 14-Year-Old's Binder

- Ryan "Danger" Ohlemeier

Best Attempt to Raise Awareness About the Dangers of Alcohol

- Christian Grund

Best Attempt to Raise Awareness About Sticky Bomb Tragedies

- Esk

Best Use of Eye Patches

- Christian Kaiser

Best Reference to Conan the Barbarian

- UnidColor

Honorable Mentions in Catchphrase Creation

- rEJ
- Wofiel
- Shenanigans
- nik.

Honorable Mentions in Catchphrase Borrowing

- kris aubuchon (awesomerobot)

Best Use of Garry's Mod

- Eric Salama

Best Reference to William Wallace

- Alan Longstaff

Best Reference to Uncle Sam

- Dan Tyler

Best Reference to Loch Ness Monster

- Wade "Nineaxis" Fabry

Best Literal Depiction of Larvae

- Christopher Martinez

Most Inevitable Incorporation of Urine

- Christian

Best Use of Sticky Bombs

- Michael A. Szymanski

Best Use of Gratuitous Violence

- Kyattsuai

Poster that Made Us the Most Hungry

- Swankery

Poster that Made Us the Least Hungry

- Yoplatz

Best Weapon-Centric Posters

- Saturnian
- Ben Holland

Best Attempts at Authentic WWII-Era Propaganda

- CaptainCube
- AGENT MELON
- KILOMONSTER
- THE KAMINATOR

Best Attempt to Write Soldier Dialogue

- Eastman's Cranium

Most Incorrect Statement

- BLOB

Best Use of the Most Primitive Computer Art Program Available

- Zachary Lindemann

Most Disturbing Use of the Most Primitive Computer Art Program Available